Insights
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ETF Trading and Order Management
With an eye on new revenue opportunities, sell-side firms are launching trading desks for exchange traded funds, a global market that has close to $3 trillion in assets under management. Investors have been pouring money …
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Advanced Trading Analytics: A Look at TradeMap Execution Strategy Designer
When a buy-side trader turns on the execution management system in the morning, the blotter could have a large number of orders clamoring for attention. Determining a path for each order can be time consuming. …
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Spoofing and the Flash Crash – Six Things You Need to Know
By Ivy Schmerken, Editorial Director Charges against a UK futures trader accused of manipulating the U.S. futures markets has ignited debate on whether “spoofing” was a contributing factor in the 2010 Flash Crash in U.S. …
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New Excel Plugin Available for FlexEdge’s Predictive Analytics Solution
Do You Use Microsoft Excel to Assist With Your Trading Analytics? Microsoft Excel remains one of the most popular tools for quantitative analysis by virtue of its simplicity and accessibility. And since many of our …
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FX Trading – Seven Trends the Buy-Side Needs to Consider
By Ivy Schmerken, Editorial Director It’s hard to escape the headlines about FX trading lately. Words such as rigging, currency manipulation, chat rooms and billion dollar fines are grabbing attention and alarming many buy-side customers. It’s …
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Smart Order Routing (SOR)
From Revolution to Evolution in the Search for Liquidity and Alpha Smart Order Routing (SOR) has ebbed and flowed as a topic of interest in the financial industry. Because the functionality has become commonplace in …
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Quants, Compliance and the Buy-Side OMS
OMS Challenges for the Buy-Side As hedge funds turn to a more active, quant-style of trading, they often need to run pre-trade compliance checks on hundreds if not thousands of names within seconds. But what …
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Does Using Predictive Analytics in Trading Really Increase Your Alpha?
Top strategy traders know, “If I can get better predictions of intraday trading volume, my algorithms will perform better!” Indeed how can a trader get better than an educated guess at trading volumes during the …